First of all, it is something too crazy to wake up in a room that’s not yours in a place that’s not your house in a country that’s not yours. Personally what happened to me was that I was thinking that I didn’t want to open my eyes because I had a lot of stuff to do in my house. Then I opened them and was like “God, where am I?!” and all of a sudden it hit me like the airport, the planes, food, hostel, pictures, views and I felt a little bit dizzy. But just for a wide. Then I got up and started talking to my roommates and making jokes and I felt extremely happy! It was so intense but somehow I managed to handle infinity of emotions in just one head. They woke me up late, just ten minutes before breakfast.

I went to the cafeteria where some mates were already eating something and talking to each other and there was some music too! So it was a good ambient. Then I discovered where the music was coming from. There was a music player in the back of the place, and the music was actually good. So what we did is pick up all the food we wanted to have for breakfast and we sat while some of us were selecting some cool music, so now we have a first day playlist! It includes songs like “How soon is now?” “Twist and shout” “Dancing queen” and other songs that we loved to listen to while eating. Then we went for a hike and I was on San Francisco’s streets for the first time in my life, and if it wasn’t enough I had a camera! But like a good one so I walked five steps and took three pictures. Ok, I really enjoyed it, I have seen many things that I only knew by the movies and it felt amazing. There are many gymnastic public areas, and somehow there’s always a lot of people running or playing with dogs or something like that. I have seen a lot of beautiful houses and proved with my own eyes that this city is an architectonic masterpiece. And I saw the sea for the first time! One thing to take in count is that this trip includes a lot of first times.

Then we got back to the hostel because the Uruguayans Youth Ambassadors were coming from the airport, so we had to decide the way to welcome them and make them feel like home. We had a lot of ideas but what we did is a poster per letter that says “welcome Uruguayans”. While everyone was doing it we all sat in the lobby and there was a man sitting in there so I don’t know how but we just started having a good conversation. His name is Scott, he’s polish and he’s 80 years old! He told us that he had travelled almost all around the world but he had never heard about Paraguay, so we told him a lot about our country. After a good, extended and informative conversation he told us that he’s going to our country in the next month (we hope so). He also said “mba’éichapa” and he did it very well in the first time. After that, all the Uruguayans arrived to the hostel, so we prepared our super greet surprise, showing them our super poster-per-letter thing while screaming ““tapeguahẽ porãke” which means “bienvenidos””. It was super fun because they got very excited and happy about it.

At night we met all together at the cafeteria (again) and we had sweet chicken and lettuce salad for dinner. It was pretty good for me (yes, I ate it, even though I don’t use to eat any kind of meat). For some people it wasn’t soooo yummy, because they weren’t very used to eat sweet meat and that kind of food, but anyways we had a good time spending the night together. Then we had some free time to take a shower or just to do whatever we wanted. After that we met in the cafeteria for the last time in the day, we had an activity with Rachel that included the famous Plan CALM, and our Clipper for the bus. It was a little bit tiring but we got it done very fast because we worked as a team. It was worth it. At the end of the day we all went to our rooms and just stay there because it was bedtime already. For me it wasn’t bedtime till two hours later, I was too busy thinking about my last day, next day, next week, next month and everything. This is actually going to change my life.